Vmware guest hangs during freeze of loopback mounted filesystem
Issue
- The server goes unresponsive.
- The VMWare snapshot fails and with the error
An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- VMWare vSphere
- loop mounted image or container
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